I recently upgraded my cell phone. I’ve been using an HTC EVO Shift 4G for a couple years. While I will miss the physical keyboard, how HTC ever decided the paltry amount of phone storage (384 MB) was sufficient still baffles me.

The EVO was a company provided phone and since Sprint didn’t have any phones that were particularly compelling, I set out to upgrade my personal cell (An LG CU500 flip phone).

Based on some great reviews, I picked the HTC One X+ as my new phone of choice. But I encountered a few issues with AT&T.

I ordered the phone from Amazon Wireless on 12/24 with the 3GB data plan. The device finally arrived on 12/28.

I had to call AT&T to get voice service working. There was some issue with the sim card that I was told was already activated, but not working properly.

On 12/29, I left the house and was expecting to have data access on my new device. But that was not the case, so I set about figuring out what was wrong.

When I went to Settings -> Mobile Network, I saw “Connection Failed Due to Incorrect APN Setting”.